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SponsoredIn terms of function, big data is benefiting businesses in truly amazing ways. High capacity tools that transform raw, unorganized data into something useable and useful is what stands behind the big data that makes up business intelligence (BI).

GuestIt’s exciting to be part of the global data geek community that’s paving the way from data overload to data insights and to see the Data Nation make its collective contribution to the big data scene.

SAP has been throwing its hands in the air for years, exclaiming that it is indeed a cloud company. But yesterday, SAP took a big step that shows where it and its customers are at by offering its “HANA” in-memory database technology from its own cloud.